Author : Diriye Osman
Publisher : Team Angelica Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781739773908
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (739 download)
Book Synopsis The Butterfly Jungle by : Diriye Osman
Download or read book The Butterfly Jungle written by Diriye Osman and published by Team Angelica Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migil Bile is a confidently curvy, tea-spilling, super-bright, slightly-dizzy queer British-Somali journalist with schizoaffective disorder and sauce to spare. Ensconced deep in the drama of being a twenty-something, working-class South Londoner juggling one too many gig-economy jobs, wonky mental health and romantic wackness, he takes the unsuspecting reader on an existential meditation on immigration, Brexit, gentrification, sexual assault, the pitfalls of being a digital worker, what it's like when all your immediate family members are on the LGBT spectrum, and explores what constitutes community and kinship during a global pandemic. Shot through with bombast and badassery, fusing Somali, Spanish, Kiswahili, patois, sheng and hip-hop slanguistics into a sex-drenched, fourth wall-smashing blend of poetry, letters, essayistic excursions and interlinked short stories, THE BUTTERFLY JUNGLE is a tour de force and Diriye Osman is a bad bitch/good-natured motherf*cker who never takes mess (but doesn't mind splitting his lunch money with you.) Ain't sh*t left to say. Dig in, reader. Diriye Osman is a British-Somali author, visual artist, critic and essayist based in London. He lives on a diet of Disney cartoons, graphic novels, masala chai and Missy Elliott records.